To our dearly departed. The year is coming to an end and many personalities have left us in 2023. Illness, accident or simply old age, all these deaths have more or less marked us by their announcement. Even more striking when death occurs unexpectedly. Even more striking when the personality is young. Lisa-Marie Presley died on January 12, 2023, at the age of 54. An obstruction in his small intestine would have caused a heart attack. Millions of fans of the series Friends collapsed upon learning of the disappearance, on October 28, 2023, of Matthew Perry, the one who played Chandler Bing, also at 54 years old. The autopsy report mentioned taking ketamine as the cause of his death. On June 1, 2023, the comedian William Bats was found dead at his home. He was 36 years old. It was his friend and producer, Jérémy Ferrari, who made the sad discovery. The body of Marwan Berrenithe actor of More beautiful life, was found hanged in an abandoned farm on October 12, 2023. He was 34 years old. He had been missing since August, after a road accident in which he was allegedly involved and which seriously injured a woman.
>>> Discover in our slideshow the stars who died in 2023
The year 2023 will also have seen the disappearance of sacred monsters. Particularly cinema, like Gina Lollobrigidaon January 16, 2023, at age 96; Rachel WelchFebruary 15, 2023, at age 82; Ryan O’Neal, on December 8, 2023, at age 82. Music, like Harry Belafonte, on April 25, 2023, at age 96; the queen of rock, Tina Turner, on May 24, 2023, at age 83. Closer to us, all the Misses have lost their mothers. The one we thought was eternal, she didn’t change so much, Geneviève de Fontenay, passed away on August 1, 2023. The lady in the hat was 90 years old. A moving tribute was also paid to her during the election of Miss France 2024, on December 16, which saw the coronation of Ève Gilles.
Louis Velle and Frédérique Hébrard, dead in 2023: a couple united until death
This summer “little baby doll” went away as she lived: Jane Birkin died on July 16, 2023 in complete discretion. The one who sang Oh ! Sorry you were sleeping… on her latest album released in 2020 tiptoed to her Parisian home. Serge Gainsbourg’s muse had been ill for several years but the announcement of her death, at age 76, caused a shock. A page has turned, but the songs and films remain. Among the deaths of 2023, the oldest among us remember Louis Velle. The actor made famous with the soap opera The young lady from Avignon and the saga The castle of olive trees died on February 3, 2023, at age 96. His wife, Frédérique Hébrard whom he married in 1949, survived him only seven months. The novelist died in turn, on September 7, 2023, at the age of 96. 73 years of marriage until death separated them. A hell of a love story!